few

1. 1.

   a small elite group

   “it was designed for the discriminating few”

   Broaderelite

1. 1.

   a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number

   “a few weeks ago”

   “a few more wagons than usual”

   “an invalid's pleasures are few and far between”

   “few roses were still blooming”

   “few women have led troops in battle”

   Antonymsmany

   Similara fewhardly a

Other forms of few

plural

fews·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about few

What does few mean?

few means "a small elite group". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in few?

few has 1 syllable: few. In IPA it is /ˈfju/.

What is the opposite of few?

The recorded antonyms are many.

Is few a common word?

few is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with few?

1 word rhymes with few. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.